The Penn's Grove record., 1887-01-15
NEWS OFTHE WEEK

"A coke train ran into q snTrrInE
engine on the Fort Wayne Railroad,
near Allegheny City, Oh the night of the
9th. A number of cars were wrecked,
and the engineer and fireman danger.
ously injured. The engineers recovery
is doubtful. A freight train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked It
Shocks Station, near Lancaster, Penna,
on the night of the 9th, by a broken
] axle. Nine cars we're wrecked, and
both tracks blocked for more than
twelve hours. Two freight trains on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, col
lided at Brands Station, Virginia, on
the evening Of the 10th, and were
wrecked. Three trainmen were severely
injured. A snow plow on the Rome.
Watertown and OIdensbuTg Railroad
ran into q passenger train at Ontario,
New Yoik, onsthe morning of the 10th,
Three men on the plow were severely
injured, n of them perhaps fatally
A passenger train on the same road
was wrecked the same morning, by a
defective rail, and three passengers, one
Of them Professor Reynolds, of Ithaca,
were badly bruised.
Temperatures below zero were re-
ported on the morning of the 10th as
follows: At Chicago, s below; st. Paul,
IS; Des Moines, 10; Davenport, Iowa,
10; Omaha, s.; Huron, Dakota, 13. At
Milwaukee it was 5 above zero, and
Grand Haven, 81 above. Cold weather
and heavy sleet storms, delaying travel,
are reported in Texas. Ice formed al
Galveston on the night of the 9Th. The
snow fall of the Sth was genera
Throughout Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey and New England. The
mails were greatly delayed. 1t is
feared that large numbers of cattle il
Montana hage been killed by the in.
tense cold.
The annual meeting of the stock.
holders of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company was held on the
10th in Association Hall, Philadelphia
The annual report showed that the net
earnings of the Railroad Company
were $13. 173, 1868. IL. For the Coal and
Iron Company there vas a loss OF
81, 147, 053, SO. The floating debt snf
current liabilities Of the Railroad Cen
pany were placed at S26, 301, 65S, and OF
LllG 1Odl dllQ 1lOu SOIbpdhJ az NOg9Sf
6l5. The figures showed an increas
in the current liabilities of S., 954, sos
and in the floating debt a decrease {
d 245 .70S. Austin Cnrb,n was IT
-lected President
"A fire in Hartford, Connecticut, OF
the 9th, destroyed a block of store
occupied by G. o. Sawyer & Co., Jacot
& Forbes and Isaac KSghmann. The
building WAS owned by Lverill s. Tate.
A building owned by the estate Of c.
V0x was badly damaged The tota'
loss is estimated at Iaore han S125 900
The fire gained heau way because tie
hydrants were frozen. The dead bofy
of Thomas r. Laughton, clerk of tile
Fire Board, and one of the editors Of
the Times, was found in the rear o.
Sawyer's store. He had been suffocates
while trying to get out. A fire in Ash.
land, Penna., on the morning of the 9th
destroyed James Wythe's bakery and
barn and tie barns of L. J. SteinbilbeI
and Alfred Bancroft, on the opposite
side of the street. Wythe was danger
ously injured while trying to save hi'
stock In the barn. A fire at Lawrence,
Kansas, early on the morning of the 9tl
destroyed A. B. Kahnweiler & Brothers
double dry goods store, Foley's restau-
rant, Stations dry goods store and thu
Army Hall. The total los
is estimated at 5000, 900; the insurance
at less than $4,000.
An extra freight train on the
Wilmington and Northern Railroad
ran into the rear OF another freight
train near Wawasset Station, Penna.,
on the morning of the Och. Henry
Hubert, conductor, and William
Martin. a passenger, who arc said t.
have been sleeping in the caboose.
were killed and their bodies wert
badly burned. The brakeman and
fireman were injured. Two cars ano
the caboose were burned and n en-
CINE was damaged,
Mrs. James Arden was burned to
death In her house near Baltimore, on
the evening of the 9Th, by the explosion
Of a coal oil lamp while she was sitting
at a table reading. Her husband had
both hands badly burned while trying
to save her.
by the bursting of a milestone al
Fowlerville, Michigan, on the 9TH. a
twelve-year-old boy vas kllled.and two
men were severely injured. Taylor ID.
West, aged 30 years, a salesman broke
his neck by falling downstairs in d.
I'll. Kent & Co. IS store, at Wilmington
Delaware, on the SIh.
"A large concrete magazine in the
redoubt at Fort Monroe, containing
powder and pyrotechnic materials ex-
ploded on the afternoon of the 9th,
from spontaneous combustion. No
person was injured, but glass IN the Of
icer's quarters and the hotel was
mashed.
The temperature in the West on
;he 9Th, ranged from IL below zero IN
Kansas to 80 below in Dakota. The
,oldest place reported by the Signal
Service was on the eth. at Bismarck,
Dakota. where it was As below Zero
While ) jim Halstrum was exam
ming a pistol. ia BROOKLYN, on the 9th,
ne We on went of, severing the end
4 his finger and killing a six.year-o'd
laughter who received the bull, t in her
lead.
John Roach, the great ship builder,
died on the morning Of the 10th, In
New York, aged 20 years. lie was
a native of Ireland. John q. Rogers,
chief Justice of the Circuit Court Of
Cook county, Illinois, dropped dead in
a store in Chicago, on the 10th.